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Chaetura Canyon Sanctuary News By Georgean and Paul Kyle
We took a rare week off in late July to travel to Lac Édouard, Quebec to attend the opening of the world’s first Chimney Swift Museum and Interpretive Center…
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Rare Bird Alert: November 4, 2016
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert and has been updated through 11/4/2016. To report rare or unusual bird sightings in the Austin area, provide recent sighting…
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Texas Naturalist’s Notes By Bill Reiner
As the leaves of most trees and shrubs native to central Texas turn colors and then drop away, two tree species, dominant on the landscape west of the interstate…
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Baker Sanctuary News By Christopher Murray
This season the annual 100-acre survey marked its sixth year of data collection since color-banding of territorial males was initiated in the spring of 2011. While 100-acre surveys of…
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Rare Bird Alert: October 20, 2016
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert and has been updated through 10/20/2016. To report rare or unusual bird sightings in the Austin area, provide recent sighting…
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Travis Audubon Proudly Supports NWF Habitat Stewards Day, October 1, 2016
The National Wildlife Federation Habitat Steward Class of Fall 2016 had a class day at the Hornsby Center for Environmental Research on Saturday, October 1. First they went on…
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Frontier Birding with Eric Carpenter
Eric Carpenter is well known in birding circles, previously setting the record for the most number of species seen in Texas during his Big Year in 2003. With 505…
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7th Annual Victor Emanuel Conservation Award Luncheon Honoring Valarie Bristol
What a party – and what a special Conservation Hero! The 7th Annual Victor Emanuel Conservation Award Luncheon was held for a sold-out crowd at the Austin Country Club October…
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Rare Bird Alert: October 13, 2016
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert and has been updated through 10/13/2016. To report rare or unusual bird sightings in the Austin area, provide recent sighting…
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What are these people doing?
What are these people doing? You’re watching students in the Travis Audubon Master Birder Class discover how birds are built. This week’s task was to dissect a pigeon to understand the…
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Chaetura Canyon Sanctuary News By Georgean and Paul Kyle
The beneficial rains that fell during the first part of the year came to a screeching halt in June, and we recorded less than 1” of precipitation during June…
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Master Birder Class
Members of the inaugural Travis Audubon Master Birder Class enjoyed their first field trip to Chaetura Canyon! This small jewel of a preserve is the first of three Travis…
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The Bidding is Live Now for the Victor Emanuel Conservation Award Silent Auction!
A stellar group of Silent Auction items has been gathered to appeal to birders and non-birders celebrating our 7th Annual Victor Emanuel Conservation Award Luncheon this Saturday, October 8. The…
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Birds & Ecology Day at Hornsby Bend
The National Wildlife Federation Habitat Steward Class of Fall 2016 had a class day at the Hornsby Center for Environmental Research on Saturday, October 1. Their day began with…
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Claude’s River Survey: October 1, 2016
Austin Colony – Webberville, Travis, Texas, US Oct 1, 2016 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 8.0 mile(s) Comments: EPISODE 125: KING OF THE KINGFISHER Fall migrations have brought many of our winter…
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